> First assume you have a new system (no previous install), and you've > already setup the disks, mounted the partitions, bootstrapped RPM, setup > networking, and manually installed only the rpms necessary to run yum > (for example, this could be done from a boot cd, in a chrooted > environment). > actually you might be able to use yum --installroot from there to install a very basic system - though I would recommend checkout something like: yum --installroot=/some/place groupinstall 'Base' while your yum.conf points to a RHL9 repo with a yumgroups.xml file matching comps.xml. > Now, would it be possible to basically install this system completely > from say a set of RedHat 9 RPMS, if you had a known set of packages you > wanted to install (not necessarily using comps.xml). That way, yum could > not only install the system (post bootstrap), but keep it up to date all > over the network? yes. -sv
